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Will Saletan breaks down Joe Biden's latest ad highlighting Donald Trump's many felonies and convictions.
Beware: Trump is Project 2025
Friends, “Project 2025” is nothing short of a 900-page blueprint for guiding Donald Trump’s second term of office if he’s reelected. After the Heritage Foundation unveiled Project 2025 in April last year when Trump was seeking the Republican nomination, he had no problem with it. But now that the nation is turning its attention to the general election, Trump doesn’t want Project 2025’s extremism to turn off independents and moderates. So Trump claimed Friday on his Truth Social platform that he has “no idea who is behind” Project 2025. This is another in a long line of Trump lies. The Project 2025 playbook was written by more than 20 officials who Trump himself appointed during his first term. If he has “no idea” who they are, he’s showing an alarming cognitive decline. One of the leaders of Project 2025 is Russ Vought. Vought was Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, a key position in the White House. Vought is also drafting Trump’s 2024 GOP platform. Project 2025’s director, Paul Dans, and both of its associate directors, Spencer Chretien and Troup Hemenway, were in charge of personnel in Trump’s White House. Even the national press secretary for Trump’s campaign appears in the Project 2025 recruitment video. Trump says he “knows nothing” about Project 2025. And he says he “disagrees” with it. As the former chairman of the Republican Party, Michael Steele put it, “Ok, let’s all play with Stupid for minute … so exactly how do you ‘disagree’ with something you ‘know nothing about’ or ‘have no idea’ who is behind, saying or doing the thing you disagree with?” The Trump campaign platform is basically Project 2025. Trump’s Make America Great Again PAC is running ads calling it “Trump’s Project 2025.” The Make America Great Again PAC also created the website TrumpProject2025.com. Trump might be trying to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation, concerned that it will also alarm independents and moderates. On Wednesday, Heritage president Kevin Roberts Roberts raised the prospect of political violence. “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” Roberts told the “War Room” podcast, founded by Trump adviser Steve Bannon. In case there’s any doubt that Trump and the Heritage Foundation are working in close partnership, Trump can be seen in this video praising the Heritage Foundation and saying he “needs” them to “achieve” his goals. The close relationship between Trump and the Heritage Foundation goes back years. In 2018, the Heritage Foundation bragged that Trump implemented two-thirds of their policy recommendations in his first year — more than any other president had done for them. One key goal of Project 2025 is to purge all government agencies of anyone more loyal to the Constitution than to Trump — a process Trump himself started in October 2020 when he hoped to remain in office. Project 2025 also calls for eliminating “woke propaganda” from all laws and federal regulations — including the terms “sexual orientation,'“ “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” “gender equality,” and “reproductive rights.” Other items in the Project 2025 blueprint are also what Trump has advocated on the campaign trail, including mass arrests and deportations of undocumented people in the United States, ending many worker protections, dropping prosecutions of far-right militias like the Proud Boys, and giving additional tax cuts to big corporations and the rich. Trump has repeatedly claimed that climate change is a “hoax.” Project 2025 calls for expanding oil drilling in the United States, shrinking the geographic footprint of national monuments, terminating clean energy incentives, and ending fossil-fuel regulations. Trump has said he’d seek vengeance against those who have prosecuted him for his illegal acts. Project 2025 calls for the prosecution of district attorneys Trump doesn’t like and the takeover of law enforcement in blue cities and states. Project 2025 is, in short, the plan to implement what Donald Trump has said he wants to do if he’s reelected. Trump may want to distance himself from Project 2025 in order to come off less bonkers to independents and moderates, but he can’t escape it. The document embodies everything he stands for. So glad you can be here today. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber of this community so we can do even more. |
NATO’s War Summit in Washington
NATO’s War Summit in Washington
NATO leaders should conduct a clear-eyed review of how the organization that claims to be a force for peace keeps escalating unwinnable wars and leaving countries in ruins, say Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies. Read here...
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Trust in the ‘Five Eyes’
The Anglo-Saxonization of American foreign and military policy has become a distinctive — and provocative — feature of the Biden presidency, writes Michael Klare. Read here...
The Anglo-Saxonization of American foreign and military policy has become a distinctive — and provocative — feature of the Biden presidency, writes Michael Klare. Read here...
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Ex Biden Officials: ‘Undeniable’
US Complicity in Gaza
Twelve former members of the Biden administration are calling its policy in Gaza a failure and a threat to U.S. national security. Read here...
Twelve former members of the Biden administration are calling its policy in Gaza a failure and a threat to U.S. national security. Read here...
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Ex Biden Officials: ‘Undeniable’ US Complicity in Gaza
Ex Biden Officials: ‘Undeniable’ US Complicity in Gaza
July 5, 2024
Twelve former members of the Biden administration are calling its policy in Gaza a failure and a threat to U.S. national security.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, foreground next to bannister, with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv on Nov. 30, 2023. (State Department, Chuck Kennedy)
By Edward Carver
Common Dreams
Former Biden administration officials this week sharply criticized its Gaza policy, arguing that the continued supply of weapons to Israel is not only “morally reprehensible” but also a violation of U.S. and international law.
In a joint statement, 12 officials who’ve resigned in protest in the last nine months set forth a list of recommendations and urged their former colleagues in the administration to use American leverage to help bring an end to the assault on Gaza.
“The administration’s policy in Gaza is a failure and a threat to U.S. national security,” the statement says. “America’s diplomatic cover for, and continuous flow of arms to, Israel has ensured our undeniable complicity in the killings and forced starvation of a besieged Palestinian population in Gaza.”
The 12 signatories included former officials from a wide range of posts and backgrounds.
One was the the administration’s latest defector: 24-year-old Interior Department special assistant Maryam Hassanein, who resigned on Tuesday, telling HuffPost that “serving in the administration in any capacity does essentially make you complicit in the genocide of the Palestinians.”
Hassanein was the first Muslim American administration appointee to resign, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which applauded the resignation on social media. She said the administration was engaging in the “dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims.”
Another signatory was Harrison Mann, the most senior military official to have left in protest of the Gaza war. Mann had been a major at the Defense Intelligence Agency. He made the news this week when he told The Guardian that Israel was seeking out a war with Lebanon for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political gain.
Stacy Gilbert, a 20-year-old State Department veteran who resigned in May over a key report, dealing in part with whether Israel was blocking humanitarian aid to Gazans, that she says contained “patently false” findings, was also among the statement’s signatories, as was Lily Greenberg Call, a former Interior Department official who was the first Jewish American appointee to resign in protest of the administration’s war policy.
The joint statement, timed to come on the week of Independence Day, warns that the U.S. government is risking its international credibility and the safety of its own citizens by putting a “target on America’s back.”
The authors argued that the administration was “willfully violating multiple U.S. laws and attempting to deny or distort facts, use loopholes, or manipulate processes to ensure a continuous flow of lethal weapons to Israel.” They cited the Leahy Laws that forbid providing military support to forces engaged in human rights violations.
The U.S. provides Israel with billions of dollars per year in military aid and has significantly increased its support during the war. In April, President Joe Biden signed a bill providing at least $15 billion in military funds for Israel.
The former officials called for an end not just to the U.S. supply of weapons for the war but also the “diplomatic cover” the U.S. provides for Israeli military occupation and settlements in Palestinian territory. The administration should announce that U.S. policy is “to support self-determination for the Palestinian people,” they wrote.
The 12 ex-officials also called for an “immediate expansion” of humanitarian aid to Gaza and funding to help rebuild the territory.
Their statement comes as Israel continues to pummel Gaza with strikes that kill Palestinian civilians. Nearly 38,000 Gazans have been killed in the last nine months, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Several strikes that killed Palestinian civilians, including a massacre in Rafah in late May that killed at least 45, have been undertaken with U.S.-made weapons, forensic analyses have showed.
The conditions for those who have survived the Israeli bombardment are dire, with Gazans forced to live amid sewage and debris.
“Civilians in Gaza are clinging to their dignity under the most inhumane conditions,” Sigrid Kaag, United Nations senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator, said in a statement on Tuesday.
“The war has not merely created a humanitarian crisis, it has unleashed a maelstrom of human misery,” she said.
Edward Carver is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
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